Mariam al-Mansouri

Mariam al-Mansouri (born 1979) is a pilot of the United Arab Emirates who is famous for being a female air force commander during the Syrian Civil War.

Biography
Mariam al-Mansouri was born in the United Arab Emirates in 1979, and she became an air force commander during the Syrian Civil War. At the age of 35, she became the first female pilot in the UAE, while in many other Arab countries, women were not even allowed to drive. She had to wait for ten years to join the Emirati Air Force, as women were not able to fly until around 2014. Al-Mansouri commanded the UAE planes that bombed Syria during the Syrian Civil War, destroying positions of the Islamic State.